1 January 2005

An insanely great deal

I think they could. It wouldn't necessarily supplant the succession of Wintel boxes that have been cluttering up my desktop, but it would give me an opportunity to play with some Mac-specific stuff for once, and it would give me some experience on yet another platform, which is always useful in case of, let us say, life-changing incidents.

Besides, a low-end Macintosh is hardly shameful; I've never owned a high-powered machine of any description, unless you were overly impressed by the Commodore 128 in 1986. (Then again, I did shoehorn 1.6 MB of RAM and 60 MB worth of hard drive into a lowly 10-MHz XT clone once upon a time.)

We bought my [85 year old] father-in-law a $799 eMac for Christmas, and I was very impressed at its performance and ease-of-setup. The fact that he's doing email, surfing the net (even found my blog via Google...which is going to cramp my style a bit, I'm afraid) and typing letters (along with a neverending stream of Cribbage games) is simply amazing to me. I don't want to fire yet another tired shot in the Windows-vs-Mac war, but I just don't think he'd have accomplished those things on a Wintel machine.

Of course, that has nothing to do with your post, so perhaps I did just fire another tired shot. Sorry.